Pikmin franchise strategy guide/Piklopedia

In the Nintendo game Pikmin 2, all enemy types Captain Olimar kills in the game are added to the Piklopedia, an encyclopedia of all the creatures encountered. These not only include animals, but plants and robot-like things as well.

Grub-Dogs
The most common type of enemy in Pikmin 2, Grub - Dogs are in every level of the game and many caves. The Water Dumple is indeed a relative of the bulborb.

Red Bulborb

Oculus kageyamii russus

Looks like a ladybug, but it never flies. This fearsome creature has large mandibles used to eat your Pikmin. If you wake it up, it will start to chase you, you but will fall asleep if it can't see you anymore. Sometimes this bulborb will lunge. If it misses, it will fall into the dirt, giving you time to escape.

Hairy Bulborb

Oculus kageyamii folliculus

A hairy lady-bug like creature, but it never flies. This creature will lose all of its hair when woken up from its slumber. If you leave it alone, the hair will grow back. This bulborb has the lowest amount of HP for any bulborb.

Orange Bulborb

Oculus kageyamii orangium

A lady-bug like creature, but it never flies. This bulborb can sense Olimar when he is far away. It has bloodshot eyes and has a orange skin with black spots. This is probably the most fearoscious of all bulborbs. It is very qiuck, hard to escape.


 * Spotty Bulbear

Oculus terribilis dotticum

A lady-bug like creature with black skin and red dots. It walks along a predetermined path, looking for Pikmin. It will chase you, and it will regenerate health when it faints/dies, so it should be returned to the onion qiuckly. Dwarf Bulbears are usually following it around.


 *  Dwarf Bulbear

Oculus terribilis

Young Bulbears that follow an adult bulbear around.


 * Bulborb Larva

Oculus bambinii

Slug-like creatures that can eat eat Pikmin very quickly. Are born by Empress Bublax.


 * Emperor Bulblax 

Oculus supremus

A large frog-like creature with a hard shell. It uses a long sticky tongue to eat, and also will crush your Pikmin by hopping on them.


 * Empress Bulblax

Oculus matriarcha

A Bulborb with an oversized body. Unlike other bulborbs, its weak point is its face.


 * Fiery Bulblax

Oculus vulcanus

A bulborb that is on fire. If you lure it into water, though, the fire on its back will dissapear.


 * Water Dumple

Ichthyosa felinis

A blue slug-like creature that is usually found in shoals of 2-3.

Breadbugs
The three more common breadbugs are disguised by nature as traditional bulborbs.

Dwarf Red Bulborb

Pansarus pseudoculii russus

"olimers notes from pikmin 2" Although initially identified as a juvinile red bulborb, groundbreaking new research indicates that this creature is in fact a member of the breadbug family. A close reletive of the vanilla breadbug, it escapes predation through mimicry. Unique adapion ofthe red bulborb's crimson colouration allows the species o safely commingle. Such effective adaption and obfuscation by a prey species is rare, indicating this clever creature is a master of mimicry.

Snow Bulborb

Pansarus pseudooculii frosticus

"olimers notes" Like the dwarf red bulborb, the snow bulborb is a member of the breadbug family that seeks to survive hrough imitating the appearance and behavior of a bulborb. Its pale coloration and blue spots make for easy identification. In particular, this organism mimics the hairybulborb, but it is of course unable to grow the hair that gives the hairy bulborb its name. However as the hairy bulborb has been known to lose its hair in certain circumstaces, the snow bulborb is an effective mimic that is often misaken for a member of the same species.


 * Dwarf Orange Bulborb

Pansarus pseudooculii orangium

"olimers notes" Just as dwarf red bulborbs mimic the appearance of red bulborbs, it was theorized that an orange bulborb-mimicking variant must also exist. Recent fieldwork has confirmed this theory


 * Breadbug

Pansarus gluttonae

"olimers notes" The adult breadbug competes for many of the same food sources as pikmin, but its thick-skinned hide allows it ti withstand most pikmin group arracks. However, some researchers claim to have observed breadbugs being overwhelmed by massive numbers of pikmin and reduced to food.


 * Giant Breadbug

Pansarus gigantus

Chrysanthemum family
This family of creatures is different in that some, like Creeping Chrysanthemums, are carnivores that eat pikmin. Others, like the Margaret, are merely plants.

Creeping Chrysanthemum

Taraxacum rovinia


 * Margaret

Luminosus croceus

Snagrets
A group in the "Snavian" family, these large predators are half snake, half bird.


 * Burrowing Snagret

Shiropedes anacondii

A large, one footed creature with a long, snake like body and a bird head.


 * Pileated Snagret

Shiropedes ambulatria

Blowhogs

 * Fiery Blowhog

Sus draconus

A gray, pig like animal capable of spewing a highly combustable liquid (fire).


 * Watery Blowhog

Sus loogiens

Similar to the Fiery Blowhog, although it makes water instead.


 * Puffy Blowhog

Sus inflata


 * Withering Blowhog

Sus decrepitia

Arachnorbs
Beady Long Legs]

Pseudoarachnia armoralis

Raging Long Legs]

Pseudoarachnia furiendis

Man-at-Legs

Pseudoarachnia navaronia

Dweevils
Members of the "Mandarachnia" genus have a tendancy to imitate objects scattered around the environment.


 * Fiery Dweevil

Mandarachnia napalmens


 * Caustic Dweevil

Mandarachnia sulfurnid


 * Anode Dweevil

Mandarachnia volticula


 * Munge Dweevil

Mandarachnia pungetis


 * Volatite Dweevil

Mandarachnia explodus


 * Titan Dweevil

Mandarachnia gargantium